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THE  STATE  HOME  AND  INDUSTRIAL  SCHOOL  FOR  GIRLS  AND  WOMEN 


BOARD  OF  MANAGERS 


Rev.  A.  A.  McGeachy,  D.D.,  President - Charlotte,  N.  C. 

Dr.  Elizabeth  Delia  Dixon-Carroll,  Vice  President ,  Raleigh,  N.  C. 

Mrs.  J.  R.  Chamberlain,  Secretary _ Raleigh,  N.  G. 

Mr.  W.  S.  Blakeney,  Treasurer _ Monroe,  N.  C. 

Mrs.  Stephen  C.  Bragaw _ Washington,  N.  C. 


70240  EDWARDS  a  BROUGHTON  PRINTING  CO..  RALEIGH,  N.  C. 


SAMARCAND  MANOR,  whose  legal  title  is  “The  State  Home 
and  Industrial  School  for  Girls  and  Women,”  was  estab¬ 
lished  by  act  of  Legislature  in  1917  for  the  reclaiming  and 
training  of  delinquents,  $25,000  having  been  appropriated  for  the 
purchase  of  grounds  and  the  erection  of  buildings,  and  $10,000 
annually  for  operating  expenses. 

In  the  summer  of  1918  the  Governor  of  the  State  appointed  a 
board  of  five  persons,  who  soon  afterwards  purchased  the  present 
site,  consisting  of  230  acres  of  ground  and  a  number  of  buildings, 
formerly  owned  and  operated  by  Dr.  C.  H.  Henderson  as  a  private 
school  for  boys.  This  place  is  situated  three  miles  from  Samar- 
cand,  on  the  Norfolk  Southern  Railroad,  in  Moore  County,  N.  C. 

The  purpose  of  the  school,  as  provided  by  the  act  and  as  con¬ 
ceived  by  the  promoters  of  this  enterprise,  is  to  furnish  a  retired, 


homelike  place  where  those  who  have  fallen  may  find  temporary 
shelter  and,  under  a  firm  yet  kind  discipline,  begin  to  live  nor¬ 
mally,  and,  when  their  term  of  commitment  is  ended,  go  out  once 
more  into  the  larger  life  of  the  world  better  fitted  to  withstand  its 
temptations  and  earn  an  honest  living. 

To  this  end,  useful  occupation  will  be  taught,  as  well  as  correct 
principles;  for  experience  has  shown  that  poverty  and  idleness  are 
the  chief  sources  of  temptation  to  the  wayward,  and  that  the  diffi¬ 
culty  of  finding  remunerative  employment  is  the  commonest  excuse, 
as  well  as  occasion  for  moral  relapse. 

Samarcand  Manor  is  one  of  the  first  institutions  of  its  kind  in  the 
Southern  States,  though  there  are  many  highly  successful  schools 
of  similar  character  in  other  sections  of  our  country.  The  board 
therefore  solicits  the  sympathetic  co-operation  of  the  courts  and  the 


general  public  in  this  hitherto  untried  effort  to  reclaim  the  most 
hopeless  and  most  neglected  of  our  population  and  restore  them  to 
honorable  and  useful  womanhood. 

Address  Miss  Agnes  McNaughton,  Superintendent , 

Jackson  Springs,  N.  C.,  R.  F.  D. 

The  institution  is  reached  over  the  Norfolk  Southern,  which  con¬ 
nects  with  the  Seaboard  at  Aberdeen,  and  with  the  Southern  at  High 
Point.  Coming  from  Charlotte,  change  at  Star  for  the  cross  line, 
once  the  Aberdeen  &  Asheboro. 


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WHO  MAY  BE  SENT  TO  THE  STATE  HOME  AND  INDUSTRIAL  SCHOOL 

FOR  GIRLS  AND  WOMEN 

(1)  A  girl  or  woman,  without  reference  to  her  age,  who  confesses  guilt  or  is  con¬ 
victed  in  any  court  of  competent  jurisdiction  in  the  State  of  being  (a)  prostitute; 
( b )  frequenter  of  disorderly  houses  or  houses  of  prostitution. 

(2)  A  habitual  drunkard;  (6)  a  vagrant;  (c)  guilty  of  any  other  misdemeanor: 
Provided ,  that  (and  this  applies  to  these  three  classes)  it  shall  appear  to  the  judge  of 
the  court  passing  judgment  in  the  case  that  said  woman  is  not  a  virtuous  woman,  and 
such  fact  should  be  found  by  the  judge  in  his  judgment  and  incorporated  in  the  com¬ 
mitment. 

The  provisions  of  Chapter  222  of  the  Public  Laws  of  1915  do  not  apply  unless  the 
girls  or  women  fall  within  the  above  classes  (2). 


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BY  WHOM  COMMITTED 


“By  any  court  of  the  State  having  jurisdiction  of  the  crime  charged  in  the  indict¬ 
ment  or  warrant.  The  court  is  authorized,  as  far  as  consistent  with  public  policy,  to 
exclude  the  public  from  its  hearing  or  investigation  of  these  cases." 

“ Provided ,  such  person  is  not  insane  or  mentally  or  physically  incapable  of  being 
substantially  benefited  by  discipline  of  such  institution;  and  Provided  further,  that 
before  sentencing  such  person  to  confinement  in  said  institution  the  court  shall  ascer¬ 
tain  whether  the  institution  is  in  position  to  care  for  such  person;  and  it  shall  he  at  all 
times  within  the  discretion  of  the  Board  of  Managers  as  to  whether  the  hoard  will 
receive  any  person  in  the  institution. 

FOR  WHAT  TERM  COMMITTED  TO  THIS  HOME 

“No  commitment  shall  be  for  any  definite  term,  but  any  person  so  committed  may  be 
paroled  or  discharged  at  any  time  after  her  commitment  by  the  Board  of  Managers,  but 
no  inmate  shall  in  any  case  be  detained  longer  than  three  years. 


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